Do you prefer water colors or oil paint? ?

Question: Do you prefer water colors or oil paint!? !?
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Watercolors and oils are extreme opposites!. Which one you prefer is a matter of personal taste!.

With watercolors, you typically work from light to dark, leaving areas of the paper white for your whites, and leveraging the paint's transparent qualities!.

With oils, you typically work from dark to light, adding highlights with white or light opaque paints!.

Oil paintings can be refined and corrected indefinitely, yielding the incredible realism of the old masters!.

Watercolors is a higher art form in the sense that you do not get to rework a painting much, as doing so will muddy the painting!. Instead, you develop a relationship and collaboration with the brush, and with various texture techniques, so that a sure, single stroke, creates all or part of the texture that you are going for!.

Oils are forgiving; watercolors are demanding!.

Oils take months to dry, which facilitates your being able to continually rework them!. You can continue to modify colors, cover colors, and blend colors!.

Watercolors dry fast, but they can be re-wet as needed!. Some pigments can be lifted easily, others are staining!. A wide variety of effects can be obtained with combinations of painting on damp paper (called "wet into wet"), or painting with more concentrated pigment on dry paper (called "dry brush")!.

Watercolors are easy and pleasant to clean up from, requiring only water and detergent!. Oils require working with solvents, such as turpenoid, and are more prone to permanently mess up something that they accidentally get on!.

Both watercolors and oils can produce realistic paintings, impressionistic paintings, abstract paintings, or a variety of other styles!.

Take a course or two in each!. Try them out!. Only then will you discover which one suits you best!.
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I use and like both, but for completely different reasons - I cant really put them in the same category to compare!
Oils you can re-work, watercolours need a confidence in every mark as you cant cover over parts you dont like so easily!. They use different techniques and have completely different results in terms of texture, luminosity etc!.

Oils i like as they can have a great haptic quality and allow a visual and sometimes 3d layering, watercolours i like especially for their wet-on-wet effects!.

So I'm not sure i can answer this question! lol
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Oil colour for me!. You can keep on adding layers and glazes!. You can fix up mistakes!.

You have to be a good artist doing watercolours!. (I can't do it)!.

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I have no preference but, you should see some of the works by Happy Murcia!. Wow!Www@QuestionHome@Com

oil is more forgiving than water color i prefer oil!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Watercolor!. No solvents or toxic substances!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

You can sell oil paintings for tons more money!. ;)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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!.!.!.water colors fore go the base coat!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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